“The acquisition of knowledge needs no such justification: its true…” — A.E.Housman

“The acquisition of knowledge needs no such justification: its true sanction is a much simpler affair, and inherent in itself.”

Defending learning as valuable independently of practical usefulness · Introductory Lecture, University College London, 1892

A.E.Housman

About A.E.Housman

26 March 1859–30 April 1936

Alfred Edward Housman was born on 26 March 1859 at Valley House, Fockbury, a small hamlet near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, England, and died in Cambridge on 30 April 1936. He became, by way of an unusually divided life, both one of the most recognizable lyric poets in English and one of the most formidable classical…

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